sydney

Some of the facades of the building include elaborate friezes. A lot of the buildings in Sydney are made from sandstone, I assume it was locally available, it adds a warmth to the building and many of the facades are beautifully carved into as in the bottom photo. It seems the mineral in the sandstone 'rusts' to this lovely colour.




I am always intrigued by plants that grow in unusual places in this case a rather large shrub is growing in the down pipe.





It is hard to tell but the facade has a date of 18 .. - what a shame the building is so run done. Chippendale is so close to town you think it would be ripe for the revamping our inner suburbs experience. In Redfern there are old terrace houses everywhere you turn so cute but so run down.





Sydney has so much history compared to Perth, so much that there are so many beautiful old building vacant and derelict. In some cases it doesn't even seem possible that anyone is living in them but as you can see from this they are if you look closely there is a well tended tomato plant on the sill on the top floor. I can't help wondering who the owner of it is and how he lives. I do love the name of the shop though, you may not be able to tell from the photo but the Rationalist News was available from here.





One of my favourite buildings in Sydney is the mortuary station I love the architecture. Luckily we were staying in th Y Hotel nearby so I had the opportunity to take some photos (the last time I as there it was covered in scaffolding). The Mortuary Station was built to take the dead and their family to the Necropolis at Rookwood. This page give some more detail http://www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au/c_building/wlocality9_2_ochert.html





My two favourite building in Sydney the Queen Victoria Building and the Strand Arcade. Does is say something about me that these are both shopping arcades? The Queen Victoria Building was actually due to be demolished in the 1950's but was saved and scheduled for restoration which was completed in 1986. The Strand Arcade is Sydney's first shopping arcade and has a wealth of wrough iron and a glass ceiling. Apparently it was almost destroyed in the late seventies by fire. These were actually taken from a previous trip - no time to shop this time.